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Children are staying in overcrowded shelters in Mexico and more than half are without their parents, rights group says.
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Climate activist denounces unequal access to coronavirus vaccines as WHO chief issues warning about rising infections.
![Cuba's President and newly-elected First Secretary of the Communist Party Miguel Diaz-Canel speaks during the closing session of the 8th Congress of the Communist Party in Havana, Cuba, on April 19, 2021 [Ariel Ley Royero/ACN via Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/2021-04-19T173200Z_1098015844_RC25ZM9EK1UO_RTRMADP_3_CUBA-POLITICS.jpg?resize=570%2C380)
Miguel Díaz-Canel becomes head of Communist Party, and retains title of president.
![Armed Guatemalan soldiers guard the integrated border crossing point of Corinto on the border with Honduras as groups of Honduran migrants are expected to arrive, in Guatemala on March 30, 2021 [AP/Delmer Martinez]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/AP_21089846072911.jpg?resize=570%2C380)
The US government’s solution to the migrant crisis is militarisation … again.
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Mexican president says he wants to propose to Joe Biden to extend aid programme in effort to curb migration to the US.
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New COVID-19 restrictions have been imposed in and around Buenos Aires in effort to stem recent rise in infections.
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Indigenous and environmental leaders, and US lawmakers urge Joe Biden to condition aid on action to stem deforestation.
After six decades, Cuba will not have a Castro in an official position of command.
![Devastating storms and flooding decimated the Guatemalan village of Campur, but some residents have since returned to try to rebuild [Jeff Abbott/Al Jazeera]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/6D8A4614.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
Facing hunger and economic crisis at home, migrants say they have little hope – and no choice but to leave for US.
How leading media outlets in Brazil have joined forces to take on Bolsonaro and his COVID denial.
![Investors, analysts and Cuban citizens will all be watching this weekend's congress closely — and seeing how many more of the country's so-called 'historic generation' actually depart, as Raul Castro (centre) has. That, experts say, will be crucial to knowing whether economic change is actually in the cards or whether business will continue as usual [File: Ramon Espinosa/AP Photo]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/AP19355685980477.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
EDITOR'S ANALYSIS
As Cuba turns page on Castro era, economic reform gains urgency
Cuba is now confronting new and dire economic challenges along with historic ones.
Brazil’s former leader discusses issue of him returning to power and the ‘political persecution’ against him.
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Congress approved former president’s temporary ban from public office by 86 votes in favour and zero against.
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Experts warn authorities’ divergent policies may damage trust and increase hesitancy in countries facing shortages.
